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housekeeperess en · NOUN

Etymology

From housekeeper + -ess.

Meanings

1. (dated, rare) A female housekeeper.
   • “Miss Mary Anderson has an idea of becoming a London manageress,” says a contemporary. We hoped that when May had made her little pile as an actress, she would make some good man a nice little wifess and settle down as a charming housekeeperess. 1885 March 12, “Personal and Impersonal”, in The Greeley News, volume IV, number 41, Greeley, Kan., column 8:
   • “Why, Patty Fairfield! consider yourself discharged, and I shall suit myself at once with another housekeeperess!” 1904, Carolyn Wells, “A Tea Club Tea”, in Patty at Home, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, →OCLC, page 149:
   • We meet a Dirty Architect, who makes lots of money and likes his butter rolled into spheres by his Irish housekeeperess, Mary. 1987, Punch, page 38, column 4:
   • Eruaga Marie 18 f housekeeperess[…]Mieg Jeanne 17 f housekeeperess 1985, Rogue Digger, Rogue Valley Genealogical Society, pages 31–32:
   • The housekeeperess of M. Molière / Was rather useful, you’re aware, / For to that lady, it is said, / His various comedies he read. 1890 November 19, “Rough on the Bird”, in Fun, volume LII, number 1332, London: […] W. Lay, […], page 217:

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